From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2452 invoked by alias); 14 Jun 2007 15:45:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 2328 invoked by uid 22791); 14 Jun 2007 15:45:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from londo.lunn.ch (HELO londo.lunn.ch) (80.238.139.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:45:17 +0000 Received: from lunn by londo.lunn.ch with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HyrVY-0001dO-00; Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:45:12 +0200 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:16:00 -0000 To: xiaolu zhao Cc: ecos-discuss Message-ID: <20070614154512.GB1594@lunn.ch> Mail-Followup-To: xiaolu zhao , ecos-discuss References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Andrew Lunn X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] how to check my modifications to the kernel without a board? X-SW-Source: 2007-06/txt/msg00154.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:14:18PM +0200, xiaolu zhao wrote: > Hi, I met a big problem, would you like to give me some advices? > > I did some modifications to the ecos Kernel code(like in sched.cxx, > thread.hxx etc.). But I have no a real hardware board. So I want to > use VMware as a virtual machine to see the results.Is it possible? Should be, but i have never done it myself. However, i would actually recommend using the synthetic target on Linux. > I tried the redbbot on the Vmware and the "hello.c" example works. But > after I modified the kernel code and rebuild the ecos using the > configtool, it did not give any compilation complaints. I know it is > impossible, there should be a lot of errors in the code. Does Redbbot > have nothing to do with the ecos kernel files? Redboot does not use the kernel. > If the redboot has nothing to do with the kernels, how can I check my > modificaiton to the kernel files with VMare? I would suggest you use the kernel test cases. These are good tests to see if your changes have broken anything. Try doing: ecosconfig new pc_rltk8139 edit ecos.ecc and change CYG_HAL_STARTUP to floppy ecosconfig tree make -s tests Once you have fixed all the compiler error you can run the test cases in install/tests/kernel/current. Andrew -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss